CH 01-15 REVIEW QUIZ
CH 01 Review Quiz
1. (Q001) The primary goal of fieenth-century Portuguese expansion was
● The establishment of a trading empire in Asia
2. (Q008) At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native
Americans had not developed
● Metal tools and machines
3. (Q011) Native American religious beliefs and practices included
● Medicine men in positions of authority.
4. (QO12) The European practice of <coverture= included that
● In marriage, a wife surrendered her legal identity.
5. (Q013) The first African slaves were shipped to the New World in what year?
● 1502
6. (Q014) How did Cortés conquer the Aztecs?
● He relied on iron weapons and gunpowder.
7. (Q015) Bartolomé de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies in
1552 argued that
● Spanish people burned Native American children alive
8. (Q021) Why did the Pueblo Revolt take place?
● Native Americans in New Mexico grew resentful of Spanish colonization.
9. (Q023) Who were the mestizos of the Americas?
● Persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
10. (Q027) Despite China’s growing territorial power, their purpose in exploration was
● To impress other world peoples with their might.
11. (Q029) Why did the news of the 1492 voyage of Columbus spread rapidly in Europe?
● The invention of printing with movable type
12. (Q033) Women in Dutch settlements
, ● Enjoyed more independence than in other colonies.
13. (QO36) Because French and Dutch settlements were more dependent on Indians as
trading partners and allies than the English, Native Americans exercised more
● Power and freedom with Europeans in relations with these settlements.
14. (Q040) Under the Dutch in North America, <half freedom= referred to
● A labor and land relationship with enslaved Africans.
15. (Q042) A <borderland= is a
● Meeting place of peoples where geographic and cultural borders are not clearly
defined.
16. (Q046) A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the
conquistadores.
● False
17. (Q057) Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.
● True
18. (Q062) On the eve of colonization of the Americas, freedom in Europe was framed in
hierarchical, top-down terms, with each level of society enjoying its own degree of
freedom.
● True
19. (Q063) Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.
● False
20. (Q064) Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.
● True
,CH 02 Review Quiz
1. (Q001) Among the problems facing the early settlers of Jamestown colony were
● High rates of death and disease.
2. (Q002) One key motivation behind many early English settlers in the American colonies
was
● The desire to escape from the spiritual corruptions of England
3. (Q007) Which of the following was a theme of Puritan thought?
● People enter this world as either the <elect= or the <damned.=
4. (Q010) The English <enclosure= movement of the 1500s and 1600s forced small farmers
off <commons= land so that the land could be taken up by
● sheep.
5. (Q012) A <visible saint= was the term Puritans used to describe
● A person who had experienced a conversion experience.
6. (Q019) Having fled religious tolerance in England, the Puritans in Massachusetts
● Were intolerant of persons who disagreed with their version of Christianity.
7. (Q020) The Mayflower Compact of 1620 asserted that
● Just and equal laws made by male representatives onboard were to rule over
others.
8. (Q022) The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in
demand for which of the following labor groups?
● Indentured servants
9. (Q028) Among the suggested reasons why the English should colonize the New World
were that
● English settlements would reduce the Spanish empire and the influence of
Catholicism
10. (Q030) One change in Indian life aer the English colonists settled was that
● Indian use of alcohol became increasingly common and disruptive to Native
American culture.
11. (Q034) The English colonies differed from the Spanish in that Spanish women could
● Jointly own all the wealth accumulated during marriage.
, 12. (Q035) Within the Puritan community, the family was considered the foundation of a
strong community while unmarried persons
● Were viewed as a danger to the social fabric of the community
13. (Q038) The Levellers
● Wanted to greatly expand the right to vote
14. (Q039) Which of the following was promoted by Oliver Cromwell?
● The expansion of Protestantism
15. (Q042) Henry Care, author of English Liberties (1680), demonstrates that
seventeenth-century identities rested in part on negative images of
● Other nations
16. (Q045) Seventeenth-century Maryland stood out for its system of absolute rule, but also
for its practice of religious toleration.
● True
17. (Q046) England’s ongoing struggle to subdue Ireland delayed its entry into New World
colonization.
● True
18. (Q050) Seventeenth-century New England quickly developed into a land of African-based
slavery.
● False
19. (Q058) Intermarriage was common between Indians and English settlers.
● False
20. (Q071) Under the headright system, anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants
would immediately acquire a large estate.
● True